The Gamblers – Addiction, Lottery, and Hollywood

The Gamblers – Addiction, Lottery, and Hollywood – Gambling. It’s enormously fun for many and even an occupation for some, but what happens when you become addicted to it? What is the driving force behind gam…

Wall Street's gambler brain lacks moral conscience

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In his classic on neuroeconomics and brain science, “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” Nobel economist Daniel Kahneman uses similar gambling imagery: “50 years of research” proves the stock-picking skills of fund managers are “more like rolling dice than like …
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Isbell Allende speaks in Santa Cruz on 'Maya's Notebook'

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Three of her stepchildren have been lost to drug addiction, two of whom have died. "Notebook" is the story of … "Las Vegas is a very artificial place, a city of gambling and entertainment and bright lights in the middle of nowhere in the desert. And …
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Morningside Recovery Center Conducts National Survey on Gambling Addiction

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"This survey helps gauge the severity of excessive gambling and allows us to develop a specialized form of treatment for those who are suffering from this addiction." Surprisingly, 27 percent of those who participated in this survey admitted to taking …
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